QLStephen is a QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. Files like:
README
INSTALL
CapFile
CHANGELOG
etc...
You can also customise the plugin to determine which files it previews. See Customizing white/black lists below.
Download the latest version of the QuickLookStephen plugin. Unzip and copy the file into your /Library/QuickLook or ~/Library/QuickLook folder. You may have to create the QuickLook folder if it doesn't exist.
If you're compliling the project yourself, you just copy the generated QLStephen.qlgenerator file into the relevant QuickLook folder as mentioned above.
If you wish to change the current behavour, you will need to follow the instructions below:
Plists used here are not same as user defaults so you won't find in ~/Library/Preferences. Instead you need to edit the plist files inside the bundle (in this case it is the plugin file: QLStepehen.qlgenerator).
If you the plugin installed then it should be in ~/Library/QuickLook/ directory.
If you don't know which one :
- QLStephenWhiteList.plist : files with these names will be ALWAYS previewed
- QLStephenExtensionsBlackList.plist : files with these extensions will NOT be previewed
- QLStephenDirectoriesBlackList.plist : files contained in directories with these names will NOT be previewed
If you have installed the plugin (by placing it in ~/Library/QuickLook/) and can't see your changes take effect:
- Make sure you are editing the correct plist of the correct bundle (It could happen you have two QLStephen plugins and the one read is in another directory like
/Library/QuickLook/, etc. - Run
qlmanage -rin the Terminal, it will reset QuickLook so plugins will be reloaded.
Because I was listening to Adam and Joe when I first wrote it.
Original author: Duncan Robertson
Special thanks to the following people for submitting patches:
- Fork the project
- Send a pull request
- Don't change the build number, I'll do that when I release a new version